Baile
Coill an Chaisil
Kilcashel
Wood of the stone ring-fort
Kilcashel, meaning 'wood of the stone ring-fort' (coill + caiseal), is a townland in the Costello barony of County Mayo, located 250 metres south of Kilmovee village. The place name appears in historical records from at least 1635, documented extensively in the Strafford Inquisition, Books of Survey and Distribution, and William Petty's Hiberniæ Delineatio of 1685. An 1838 Ordnance Survey recor...
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